Gerda Prochaska-Stolze
Gerda Prochaska-Stolze (* Brno , Moravia ) is a German opera singer. The mezzo-soprano is also the founder of a concert agency.
Prochaska, who comes from Moravia, has lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen since 1949 . She was trained by Kuhn-Engleder in Oberammergau and at the Vienna Conservatory .
After first concerts in Vienna , Luxembourg and London , engagements followed on German stages and finally at the Vienna Volksoper . Here she met her future husband, Gerhard Stolze , who was engaged there as a chamber singer at the time. After his untimely death in 1979, the singer, who after the deterioration of her husband's health had meanwhile also worked as a pension landlady, founded the concert agency Konzert Prochaska.
Afterwards, Prochaska-Stolze came out with concert evenings, especially with literary-musical combination programs. In this context she recorded a long-playing record with Peter Pasetti and Erik Werba . The singing focus was the song and the oratorio. A highlight in this regard was certainly the central participation of the mezzo-soprano in the 1994 CD performance of the Stabat mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Parafrasi del Christ by Donizetti at the Rudolfinum in Prague in 1993.
Since 1996 Prochaska-Stolze has been dealing with the subject of "Classical Music - Baroque Horses". Her Carmina Burana performance with baroque horses celebrated its premiere in the Riem riding arena .
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- ↑ Sven Siedenberg: My father. 'I can still hear his voice today', in: Focus 1000 / No. 26, p. 106
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| SURNAME | Prochaska-Stolze, Gerda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |